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near relatives of the coralroots show a tendency to construct sim- 
Ly pso. 
S up a specimens of Aplectyrum he will find an old 
corm of last year’s ae eee ee an offset an inch long 
with a young corm which sends up a leaf in the autumn. The 
this offset and down into the new roots formed at its tip when it 
begins to enlarge to m . the young corm. Now, if the growth 
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along its sides into coralloid a with hairs through which 
the Fungus sends tubes out into the soil and brings in a supply 
of material. 
The leaves which spring from offsets developed in this manner 
uch narrower than the ordinary forms. The clumps of 
oa which grow alongside a decaying log, or which have 
found ae in the remains of one are very apt to make these 
experimenter, if old corms are aia from the plant and made 
to germinate the latent bud. 
bout two hundred specimens of this plant are now growing 
in a single plantation in the New York Botanical Garden, and a 
number have the narrow leaves indicative of the curious ante 
ground stems or branches of the offsets. The appearance of the 
normal plant, and a clump with the coralloid formations is shown 
in figure 2 
COLORS. 
The subject of colors is a most prolific one and is unfortunate 
in the character of some of the literary production which it incites. 
A paper recently distributed by F. T. Mott, F. ., of 
Leicester, England, “On the Origin of Organic olan’? qhieh 
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ntage 
paper may be gained from the following quotations : “ An animal 
